The Turkish Pediatrics Archive, the official scientific publication of Turkish Pediatrics Association, is an international periodical journal of child health and diseases in Turkish based on the principles of independent and unbiased peer-review. It publishes research articles, interesting cases, and invited reviews in the field of children’s health and diseases. The language of the journal is Turkish. In order to be accepted for publication in this journal, articles should not have been published previously or been submitted for publication. The format of the articles should comply with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication (http://www.icmje.org) 
The submitted manuscripts will be assessed by at least two referees assigned by the Editorial Board according to double-blind, independent, and detached peer-review principles.  The final decision is made by the Journal’s Editorial Board. The Editorial Board is authorized to not publish articles not approved by the Referee Board, to send back submissions to the author for rewriting, to edit the format, and to correct or to shorten manuscripts.   

The manuscripts should be submitted as the original and two copies, along with a diskette containing the complete text and illustrations. The diskette content should be written in Times New Roman, font size 10. For manuscripts sent for rewriting, a diskette containing the edited text should be resubmitted separately.  Research and review articles should be 10 pages maximum, and case reports should not exceed 5 pages.

The manuscripts should be sent along with a cover letter signed by all the authors. The authors bear all legal and scientific responsibility for the article. All authors must approve the publication by a collective signature indicating their scientific contribution and responsibilities as well as absence of conflict of interests. Institutions, organizations, and companies of pharmaceuticals and materials contributing by allowances in money or in kind, even only partial, should be given as a footnote.

Upon acceptance of the article, copyrights of the manuscripts are implicitly transferred to the journal.

For experimental, clinical, and drug researches an Ethics Committee report consistent with international agreements on human and animal rights (Helsinki Declaration of 1975, revised 2002 - http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm and “Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals - www.nap.edu/catalog/5140.html) and an informed consent of patients are required.

Rules for Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be typed in double-lined spacing on an A4 paper on only one side of the paper with approximately 3 cm margins on both sides.
Manuscripts should be numbered on lower right corner starting from the title page.
Manuscripts should be arranged as follows:
A) For research articles: 1) Title page, 2) Turkish abstract, 3) English abstract, 4) Introduction, 5) Material and Method, 6) Findings, 7) Discussion, 8) References, 9) Tables, 10) Illustrations and pictures
B) For case reports: 1) Title page, 2) Turkish abstract, 3) English abstract, 4) Introduction,  5) Case report, 6) Discussion, 7) References, 8) Tables,  9) Illustrations and pictures

Title page
The title of the manuscript should be written in Turkish and English in series, with only the initial letter in capital. Names, scientific titles, affiliations and the institution in which the research has been conducted should be indicated. Mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, as well as e-mail addresses of the corresponding author should be given.

Abstract
An abstract with maximum 150 words for research and review articles, and maximum 50 words for case reports should follow the title page on a separate page, containing subtitles for aim, material and method, findings, and conclusions. The English abstract in the same order should follow the Turkish abstract. Directly below the abstracts, 3-10 keywords consistent with Index Medicus should be given in Turkish and English.

Illustrations and Pictures
Illustrations and pictures should be printed in black-white on glossy paper and sent in a separate envelope without being attached to any other paper. Graphics and technical illustrations should be drawn with Chinese ink on tracing paper or white paper or by computer. Illustrations and pictures should also be sent in three copies. Direction, number and name of the first author should be penciled on the back of each illustration. Subtitles of the illustrations should be typed on a separate page giving the number of the illustration, and this number must be cited within the text. Magnification rate and staining technique should be indicated for microscopic pictures. Resolution of pictures, figures, graphics, and tables sent by internet or CD should be at least 300 dpi.

The author must obtain permission from the copyright holders for pictures, figures, graphics, and tables and imply this within the text.

Tables
They must be double-spaced typed and should not be divided by vertical or horizontal lines. All tables should be numbered (using Roman numbers) and the title  should appear at the top. The table numbers should also appear in the text.

References
References should be numbered in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. The titles of the journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. If there are more than 6   authors, the names of the first 3 authors should be listed and “ve ark” should be added for Turkish references and “et al” should be added for foreign references.
Example: Pizzo PA, Rubin M, Freifeld A, Walsh TJ, Child with cancer and infection. II. Nonbacterial infections, J. Pediatr1991; 119: 845-57.
If the author is not stated, the reference should be as follows.
Example: Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas (editorial), BMJ 1981; 283: 628,
If the reference is a book, it should be as follows:
Example: Krugman S, Latz SE, Gershon A, Wilfert CM. Infections disease of children. 8th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1985: 15-25.
If the reference is a chapter in a  book, it should be as follows.
Example: Giddings SS. Innocent murmurs. In: Stocman III JA ed  (s). Difficult diagnosis in pediatrics. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1990: 91-8.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should not be used in the title or abstract. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text.

Submission Online
You can reach our journal via the internet address www.turkpediatri.org.tr
Submission online requires the manuscript to be sent in 2 parts by following a procedure of 9 steps. The first part is the identity of the manuscript. The first 7 steps include the type of the manuscript, institutes, authors, title, short abstract, keywords, submission letter, etc.

1) The type and category of the manuscript is chosen.
2) The institutions where authors are affiliated are entered. If all the authors are in the same institution, it is sufficient to state it only once. No abbreviations should be used when writing the names of the institutions.
3) Names, surnames and e-mail addresses of authors are written. Moreover the institutions stated in the previous step are chosen and institutions related to authors are marked. The corresponding author should also be stated in this step. It is obligatory to enter the e-mail address of corresponding author. This is not a requisite for other authors. No abbreviations should be used in author names.
4) The title of the manuscript is written.
5) The Turkish short abstract is written.
6) The keywords are written.
7) Special notes to the editor should be written as a covering letter.
8) The identity of the manuscript is completed at this point. This step is where the text and images of the manuscript are sent. In the manuscript file there should no images except for the table. Therefore the sending procedure of a manuscript which includes a photograph and a graph should be carried out 3 times (text file, photograph file, and graph file). If present, the image files should be sent first. No image should be present in the body file. All photographs, graphs and other images present in the text should be sent in turn along with the names referred to in the manuscript (Figure 1, graph 1, etc). You may use any text editor for the text file ( Word, Notepad, Wordpad…). If your text includes a table, you should use MS Word. Since all information about the manuscript’s identity has been previously obtained, details such as author names or institutions should not appear in the text file.

The text file should be in the following order.
Turkish title
English title
Turkish short title
Turkish abstract
English abstract
Text of the manuscript
References
Tables and explanations
If images are present, only their explanations should appear.

The names of the files sent should not indicate the author or institute names. The text files that are sent can be demonstrable by changing to PDF format within a minute.
9) After the manuscript is sent, the details about the manuscript can be seen.  Up to  this step, you can return to the previous steps and make changes by pressing the “previous” button. You can stop when you desire and continue another time. At the 9th and last step, when you press the “send text” button, the text is sent to the journal editor and the text is carried from “partially submitted manuscript” section to “submitted manuscript” section. In this section no changes in your manuscript may be made. Authors can follow their manuscript in the editorial evaluation process. When the editor requires corrections, your manuscript is transferred from “sent manuscript” section to “manuscript revision required” section. In this section, you may make any necessary corrections. 

Mail address
Editor: Prof. Dr. Nil Arısoy
İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi
Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı Cerrahpaşa-İstanbul-Turkey
Telephone: +90 212 632 86 33
Fax: +90 212 632 86 33
E-mail: info@turkpediatri.org.tr
Web page: www.turkpediatriarsivi.com   

Control list for authors

1) Submission letter signed by all authors.
2) 3 copies of the manuscript (page numbers should be given starting with the title page).

- Title page (Turkish and English title, full names of authors, academic degrees, institutions of authors and name of institutions where the study was made, mail address, telephone, fax and e-mail address of corresponding author).
- Turkish and English abstract (including keywords)
- Introduction
- Material and methods
- Results
- Discussion
- References
- Tables
- Illustrations and photographs

3) A diskette including text, illustrations and tables (The title and first author’s name should appear on the diskette).